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Jantar Mantar: India's Astronomical Heritage

In the early 18th century, Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories called Jantar Mantars in major cities across India between 1724-1735. The observatories contained various instruments like the Samrat Yantra, Jai Prakash, and Ram Yantra that were used to perform calculations and predict the movements of celestial bodies like the sun, moon, and planets. The primary purpose of the observatories was to compile astronomical tables and predict astronomical events.

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Jantar Mantar: India's Astronomical Heritage

In the early 18th century, Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories called Jantar Mantars in major cities across India between 1724-1735. The observatories contained various instruments like the Samrat Yantra, Jai Prakash, and Ram Yantra that were used to perform calculations and predict the movements of celestial bodies like the sun, moon, and planets. The primary purpose of the observatories was to compile astronomical tables and predict astronomical events.

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In the early 18th century, 

Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five Jantar Mantar in total,


in New Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura and Varanasi; they were completed between 1724 and
1735.
The Jantar have like Samrat Yantra, Jai Prakash, Ram Yantra and Niyati Chakra; each of which
are used to for various astronomical calculations. The primary purpose of the observatory was to
compile astronomical tables and to predict the times and movements of
the sun, moon and planets.[3]
List Of Instruments:

 Samrat Yantra
 Jai Prakash Yantra
 Disha Yantra
 Rama Yantra
 Chakra Yantra
 Rashiwalya Yantra
 Dingash Yantra
 Utaansh Yantra
The Sun Dial at the Vedh Shala in Ujjain, India.

Name
The name "Jantar Mantar" is at least 200 years old, finding a mention in an account from 1803.
[4]
 However, the archives of Jaipur State, such as accounts from 1735 and 1737–1738, do not use
this as Jantra, which in the spoken language is corrupted to Jantar.[4] The word Jantra is derived
from yantra, instrument, while the suffix Mantar is derived from mantrana meaning consult or
calculate.[4] The words jantar and mantar (or yantra and mantra) mean calculation instrument.

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